Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential bids. In July the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Presser on charges of paying $274,000 to nonworking "ghost employees" at a Teamsters local in Cleveland. Presser's uncle Allen Friedman went to federal prison for allegedly receiving such illegal payments. Federal District Court Judge Sam Bell granted Friedman a new trial last week on the grounds that U.S. prosecutors failed to disclose Presser's role in the case as an FBI informant. Bell also ordered an investigation of whether FBI and Justice Department officials violated the law by failing to turn over crucial evidence about Presser...
...hampered when federal prosecutors withheld important evidence about Presser's role as an FBI informant on Teamsters-related crimes. In a surprising announcement last week, the Justice Department said it would rather dismiss all charges against Friedman than release sensitive documents on Presser's FBI ties. If Judge Sam Bell orders a new trial for Friedman this week, the convicted felon will be allowed to go free...
Boston Comedy Co.: Play it Again Sam's 1314 Commonwealth Ave. Boston 232-4242 Both nights...
...believe, and some may actually believe, that they only hold a mirror to life. And mirrors can hardly be accused of bad faith. After all, the idea of neutrality inheres in the very word medium. There is a story out there to be got, and as Sam Donaldson, prominent preacher of this doctrine, puts it, "It's our job to cover the story . . . we bring information...
...intones, "the mayor or any member of the council may enforce this proclamation by cutting off any and all ties, worn at any and all occasions." Quick to the cut himself, Rogers has personally slashed some 220 cravats during the past four summers. Most victims, like Local Banker Sam Young, take it with at least a forced grin. The shear effrontery of Rogers is not limited to men. "If (Houston Mayor) Kathy Whitmire shows up," he pledges, "I will cut off that thing she wears that looks like...